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Avarice Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
- At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,…
More Avarice Quotes
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice… — Samuel Johnson
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
- All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels… — Karl Marx
- What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld